

Chetan Krishnaswamy
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Write, read, run. Likes sparkling and musical minds, spirited conversations, expansive skies. Ex-Google. Now, Vice President-Public Policy @AmazonIN.Breathe!



via @TheEconomist Why Bangalore has India’s best billionaires Its philanthropists want to do more than just give money away Beyond traffic and chaos, Bengaluru’s another real edge lies in something rarer. A new kind of billionaire. Unlike legacy wealth in Mumbai or Delhi, the city’s tech founders are first-generation, problem-solving capitalists and they’re channeling money not just into charity, but into institution-building, governance, and public systems. From Aadhaar to science labs to urban governance, this cohort is funding the “software of the state” and quietly shaping how India works, not just what it builds.

Today is the 110th birth anniversary of the great shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan. As I wrote about him in 2006, “In a delicious paradox that can only be Indian, the man who best embodied the spirit of the holy Hindu city of Banaras was a Muslim.” ramachandraguha.in/archives/bismi…

Quote your favourite 🐐 Dr. Rajkumar song 🎶

My Top Songs. B & W. 112 Love Marriage 1959 A lovely duet by Lataji and Rafi. Music SJ. Lyrics Hasrat Directed by Subodh Mukherjee with Dev and Mala sinha. This high energy duet also has Dev trying to keep up with typical Mala sinha dance steps.




जगतजननी माता पर अटूट विश्वास उनके भक्तों में नई चेतना और स्फूर्ति का संचार करने वाला है। youtube.com/watch?v=fRYPwN…








Excited about our new strategic partnership with @OpenAI. Developers and companies of all kinds are eager to run services powered by OpenAI models on AWS, and our unique collaboration will provide a stateful runtime environment for them that’s powered by OpenAI’s frontier intelligence on Amazon Bedrock. OpenAI is also going big on our custom Trainium chips, which are 30-40% more price performant than comparable GPUs, to power their growth. Both the leading AI labs now have made significant commitments to Trainium, which is gaining a lot of momentum. We’ll be the exclusive 3P cloud distribution provider for OpenAI Frontier (which enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage teams of AI agents). And finally, we’re excited about our investment in OpenAI — it’s an extremely talented team with great products, IP, and vision for how they can continue to serve customers and enterprises. We think they’ll be one of the big winners in AI, we can help them grow, and we believe we’ll earn a strong return for Amazon over the long term. aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazo…

Amazon’s Second-Largest Asia Office Opens in Bengaluru Honoured to inaugurate Amazon’s 11 lakh sq. ft. (1.1 million sq ft) BLR 37 campus in Bengaluru, its 10th corporate office in Karnataka and second-largest in Asia. The 12-storey facility will support over 7,000 jobs across technology, e-commerce, payments and operations. With Amazon’s $35 billion India investment plan, this milestone reinforces global confidence in Karnataka’s talent, innovation and world-class infrastructure. We welcome more global companies to invest, grow and create jobs from Karnataka. @amazonIN

This is Brilliant. After Venkatesh Prasad becomes KSCA President, he made sure a stand gets named after the cricketing legends. The two bowling ends, Pavilion End and Northern End, are now named after two of India's greatest Anil Kumble and Rahul Dravid.
